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Dave Eggers

"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."

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Donna Grant

"Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to actually show up somewhere... You don't have to dress up, for instance, and you can't hear them boo you right away."

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Donna Grant

"Better ignore it than halfheartedly listen!"

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Donna Grant

"Make It Fun. Have you ever been publicly acknowledged or called upon in a room filled with people? Depending on your personality type, it can be either exhilarating or mortifying. It certainly does grab your attention, as well as everyone else's!"

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Donna Grant

"You don't care for anybody... you just do it for attention, isn't it true?"

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Donna Grant

"You can't get attention of one who focused on himself."

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Donna Grant

"The person whose attention is in the 'pure Soul' is known as a renowned person. No one in the past had been celebrated as a famous person, they were called renowned persons. To be famous is the result of an 'above normal' state."

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Donna Grant

"The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

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Donna Grant

"Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness."

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Donna Grant

"I think I'm a focus for international attention."

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Donna Grant

"The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility."

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Dave Eggers
"They took my mother's stomach out six months ago."

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Dave Eggers
"So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas."

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Dave Eggers
"And what we were trying to offer every day was one-on-one attention. The goal was to have a one-to-one ratio with every one of these students."

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Dave Eggers
"Status in itself is criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people."

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Dave Eggers
"The key thing is, even if you only have a couple of hours a month, those two hours shoulder-to-shoulder, next to one student, concentrated attention, shining this beam of light on their work, on their thoughts and their self-expression, is going to be absolutely transformative, because so many of the students have not had that ever before."

Work

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Dave Eggers
"You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher."

Attention

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Dave Eggers
"Some of these kids just don't plain know how good they are: how smart and how much they have to say. You can tell them. You can shine that light on them, one human interaction at a time."

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Dave Eggers
"It's not that our family has no taste, it's just that our family's taste is inconsistent."

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Dave Eggers
"People are strange, but more than that, they're good. They're good first, then strange."

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Dave Eggers
"But there was something psychological happening there that was just a little bit different. And the other thing was, there was no stigma. Kids weren't going into the 'Center-for-Kids-That-Need-More-Help' or something like that. It was 826 Valencia."

Kids

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